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Description of Collection Historical Note Scope and Contents of Collection Restrictions on Use and Access Selected Search Terms Organization and Arrangement of Collection Provenance and Acquisition Information Processing Information Preferred Citation of Collection Administrative InformationContainer List
Series I: Personal histories of x-ray astronomy recordsPersonal histories of X-ray astronomy records, 1967-2013
Description of Collection
Repository
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives.
Papers created by
American Astronomical Society. High Energy Astrophysics Division
Size of collection
0.25 linear feet
1 half manuscript box
Short description of collection
Video and historical contributions from members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division involved in the history of x-ray astronomy over its first 50 years. Includes a DVD of meeting session from 2013 AAS meeting celebrating the 50th anniversary.
Language(s) of collection
English
Collection number:
ar20131155
Historical Note
Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), it assists and promotes the advancement of research and the dissemination of knowledge about high energy events, particles, quanta, relativistic gravitational fields, and related phenomena in the astrophysical universe.
Scope and Contents of Collection
Video and historical contributions from members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division involved in the history of x-ray astronomy over its first 50 years. Includes a DVD of meeting session from 2013 AAS meeting celebrating the 50th anniversary. Contributions given by Hale Bradt, Lynn Cominsky, Gordon P. Garmire, Edwin M. Kellogg, Jonathan McDowell, Laurence Peterson, Ken Pounds, Frederick Seward, Jean Swank, Harvey Tananbaum and Wallace Tucker, Martin Weisskopf, and P. Frank Winkler.
Restrictions on Use and Access
Researchers must have an approved access application on file in order to access archival materials. https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/item-request.
Selected Search Terms
These papers have been indexed in the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS) using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
Persons
Bradt, Hale, 1930-
Cominsky, Lynn R.
Garmire, Gordon P. (Gordon Paul), 1937-
Kellogg, Edwin M.
McDowell, Jonathan
Peterson, Laurence E., 1931-
Pounds, K. (Ken)
Seward, Frederick D.
Swank, Jean H.
Tananbaum, Harvey D.
Tucker, Wallace H.
Weisskopf, Martin.
Winkler, P. Frank
Institutions
American Astronomical Society. High-Energy Astronomy Division
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Subject terms
X-ray astronomy.
X-ray astronomy. History. 20th century
Organization and Arrangement of Collection
Collection is arranged alphabetically by author of contribution with the video of meeting session as the last item.
Provenance and Acquisition Information
Received as contributions from all the authors in 2013.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Amanda Nelson in 2013.
Preferred Citation of Collection
Box [number], Folder [number], Personal histories of X-ray astronomy records, 1967-2013. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Administrative Information
Title
Finding Aid to the Personal histories of X-ray astronomy records, 1967-2013
Publisher
American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
USA
nbl@aip.org
2013
Encoding Information
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Amanda Nelson in 2013. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process.
Series I: Personal histories of x-ray astronomy records
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | Bradt, Hale - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s First Scientific Sounding Rocket Launch at White Sand Missile Range, 1967, 2012 |
| Folder 2 | Bradt, Hale - Reflections on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, 2010 |
| Folder 3 | Bradt, Hale - SAS-3 May 8, 1975 to April 9, 1979: An Informal History, 1979 |
| Folder 4 | Cominsky, Lynn - From Uhuru at Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) to SAS-3 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): Looking for X-ray Binaries in All the Right Places, 2013 |
| Folder 5 | Garmire, Gordon P. - A Brief History of My Work on X-ray Astronomy, 2013 |
| Folder 6 | Kellogg, Edwin M. - My Life Over 46 Years in X-ray Astronomy, 2013 |
| Folder 7 | McDowell, Jonathan - Rockets for Extrasolar X-rays, 2013 |
| Folder 8 | Peterson, Laurence - A Personal Perspective on the Early Years of High Energy Astronomy: from Minnesota to San Diego, 2013 |
| Folder 9 | Pounds, Ken - Recollections from 50 years of X-ray Astronomy at Leicester, 2013 |
| Folder 10 | Seward, Frederick - X-ray Astronomy at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1965-1975, 2013 |
| Folder 11 | Swank, Jean - Notes from a Second Generation X-ray Astronomer: the Interplay between Theory and Observations in X-ray Astrophysics, 2012 |
| Folder 12 | Tananbaum, Harvey and Tucker, Wallace - Mirror Man, 2013 |
| Folder 13 | Weisskopf, Martin C. - From a Sounding Rocket per Year to an Observatory per Lifetime, 2013 |
| Folder 14 | Winkler, P. Frank - X-ray Astronomy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1970s: A Personal Memoir, 2013 |
| Folder 15 | Video of American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting session: Fifty Years of Celestial X-ray Astronomy, January 7, 2013 |